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I wonder if my local library has gone back to people’s names on the card. Can remember when they started using your library card number and you’d see that in the book. Been years since I’ve checked out a book, ironically I now own most of the books I enjoyed checking out from them, and I can also blame the net for my lack of visiting. Most of the subjects I’d be checking out books from the library for I can look up online. Maybe even find a copy on Project Guttenberg for free download if it’s an old enough book. But it’s been almost twenty years since I last saw a person’s name on that little slip.

I bought a used copy of Pet Sematary by Stephen King. One of the previous owners thought his observations were so important, he just had to write them in.(I knew it was a he, by the comments about ‘irrational females’…)

I don’t mean to be snarky, but I wonder when Pastis last used a library. In my 65 years I have used a lot of different libraries, in at least two different countries, and I don’t think I have EVER seen a system where the borrower wrote his/her name on a card that was left in the book. Usually when the borrower’s name is written on a card, that card is then left with the library until the book is returned.

#1: some libraries did use real names on the cards.#2: sometimes the card stays in by mistake.#3: however, I haven’t seen a card in a library book in at least 20 years, most libraries have computerized checkout systems.

About Pearls Before Swine

At its heart, Pearls Before Swine is the comic strip tale of two friends: an arrogant Rat who thinks he knows it all and a slow-witted Pig who doesn't know any better. Together, this pair offers caustic commentary on humanity's quest for the unattainable. Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams says that Pearls is "one of the few comics that make me laugh out loud."